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Stork Mountain

Stork Mountain

Penkov, Miroslav

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Publisher Price: $30.99

ISBN10: 1250118107
ISBN13: 9781250118103
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Mar 14 2017
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Culture, religion, and ideology collide in the mountains of Bulgaria in this big hearted debut novel

In Stork Mountain, a young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly broke contact with the family three years earlier. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains---a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where men and women, possessed by Christian saints, dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he gets drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths. And here, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. The past will surrender its shameful secrets, as old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts blaze anew.

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